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Leighton Pierce

Lodestar

Vidéo expérimentale | mobile phone | couleur | 13:42 | USA | 2022

LODESTAR Leighton Pierce Pierce has recently created hundreds of short reflective loops to stimulate subtle alterations in states of mind. He shoots and processes them entirely on his phone in order to bring the active video "meaning-making" process into his daily lived experience. His camera (and NLE) is always in his pocket. Lodestar takes advantage of synergies and leaps among some of these loops and then extends them toward proto-narrative --the moment when an objective narrative is first detected. Sound is integral to the potential for an in-depth experience during this 13 minute video. Slow transformations and repetitions with subtle variations are explicitly invoked through both image and sound to soften the rational sense-making that we are usually immersed in. Lodestar could be an inducement to trance--but not only trance. I suggest watching it with attention and patience and with a minimum of narrative expectation.

Leighton Pierce Bio Leighton Pierce is an artist and a committed educator grounding his work in an examination of how one can use art, or video and sound in his case, to explore the fringes of narrative, the seeds of cognition, and the thresholds of perception. He takes an holistic approach to video making and video installations embracing all aesthetic/technical aspects as an entangled web of symbiotic relationships. His work has been widely screened at over 500 film festivals with numerous awards and accolades. His major multi-channel video installations, designed to de-objectify the video viewing experience, have been presented at the Sundance Film Festival, the Kochi (India) Biennial, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and the Sheldon Museum of Art; his film and video work has also been screened at museums including the Whitney Biennial, Pompidou Museum, and MOMA in addition to hundreds of festival screenings. He is a recipient of grants/fellowships from Creative Capital, the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.